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New Zealand is exempting heavy electric vehicles from road use charges, a move that
could save some truck drivers thousands of dollars a year.

A
measure passed by Parliament June 27, which became law the next day, added large electric
delivery trucks, buses and vans to the incentives already enjoyed by the country’s
few drivers of electric passenger cars. It also grants all electric vehicles free
access to high-occupancy lanes and bus lanes.

The Ministry of Transport estimates annual savings at NZ$2,480 ($1,806) for a medium-sized
two-axle delivery truck, NZ$5,560
($4,049) for a two-axle waste truck and NZ$6,140 ($4,472) for a trolley bus.

The value of the existing road user charge exemption for electric passenger cars is
about NZ$558 ($406) a year.

‘Standing-Still Legislation’

Heavy electric vehicles, defined as any vehicle with a maximum gross weight of more
than 3.5 metric tons, will be exempt from road charges until they comprise 2 percent
of the heavy vehicle fleet. This would match arrangements already in place for light
electric vehicles (up to 3.5 metric tons), which exempt them from road user charges
until they make up 2 percent of the light vehicle fleet.

While New Zealand has about 4 million cars and trucks on its roads, fewer than 4,000
are electric vehicles, according to government figures. The country has set a goal
of reaching 64,000 electric vehicles by 2021. In 2016, it had only 60 registered heavy
electric vehicles, 57 of them electric trolley buses that operate in Wellington, the
capital.

The ruling National Party introduced the measure, “an important part of the government’s
work to improve the efficiency of our energy use and to meet our climate change commitments,”
minister for energy and resources Judith Collins told Parliament.

But some lawmakers said the changes don’t do enough to encourage electric vehicle
use.

“This is standing-still legislation,”
said Labor member of Parliament Megan Woods. “It is not putting in place the kind
of transformational change that will see the uptake of EVs happen faster,” Woods told
Parliament.

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